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Gov. Terry McAuliffe will head to Cuba later this year as political and business leaders jockey for economic position on the island with an expectation that U.S.-Cuban relations will continue to thaw. McAuliffe announced his trip Tuesday afternoon after José Ramón Cabañas, essentially Cuba's ambassador in the United States, spoke to farmers, bankers and others assembled for the annual Governor's Conference on Agricultural Trade. "Huge opportunity for us," McAuliffe said after his announcement. "They could be one of our most significant, if not in the top five, of our trading partners." Virginia businesses already sell apples, pork...

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Gov. Terry McAuliffe will head to Cuba later this year as political and business leaders jockey for economic position on the island with an expectation that U.S.-Cuban relations will continue to thaw.
McAuliffe announced his trip Tuesday afternoon...

Ships from the Royal Canadian Navy have sailed south to train off the coast of Virginia and the Carolinas this week with sailors from Norfolk.Carrier Strike Group 4, based at Naval Station Norfolk, is leading the exercise that began Monday. Destroyer...

Ships from the Royal Canadian Navy have sailed south to train off the coast of Virginia and the Carolinas this week with sailors from Norfolk.
Carrier Strike Group 4, based at Naval Station Norfolk, is leading the exercise which began Monday along with...

With nearly 50 million citizens age 65 and older living in the United States and Canada, seniors represent one of the fastest growing population segments, but also a demographic commonly targeted for crime. As the senior population continues to increase —...

Threatened animals like elephants, porpoises and lions grab all the headlines, but what's happening to monarch butterflies is nothing short of a massacre. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service summed it up in just one grim statistic on Monday: Since 1990,...

Old Dominion University police accused a Canadian man with streaking during a Friday night football game, a spokeswoman said.
Kevin Tardif, 20, of St. Eustache, Quebec, was charged with indecent exposure and being drunk in public, university...

Virginia's own Chris Brown will play Virginia Beach on Oct. 9 according to a press release issued today, Aug. 10. The R&B-pop singer who has rebounded from personal troubles to once again make smash hit tunes will launch his "F.A.M.E."...

WASHINGTON While some government and industry officials have repeatedly said there's no silver bullet to improve the safety of oil trains, a persistent problem runs through every new derailment: the tank cars. Oil industry groups maintain that...

BNSF has started taking additional safety measures for crude oil shipments because of four recent high-profile derailments in the U.S. and Canada, the railroad said Monday. Under the changes, BNSF is slowing down crude oil trains to 35 mph in cities...

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday that Montreal needs a new stadium to have any chance of bringing the sport back to the city. "The key thing in Montreal would be to have a plan for an adequate facility that could support...

An Air Canada plane made a hard landing short of the runway at the Halifax airport during a snowstorm, crashing into a bank of antennas and shearing off its main landing gear, nose cone, and an engine as it skidded on its belly, officials said. The...

It was quick and painless, pretty much the opposite of the Lakers' season.
They were up two at halftime and down a lot more than that by the time the fourth quarter ended with a 94-83 victory for the Toronto Raptors on Friday night at Air Canada Centre....

An Air Canada plane made an "abrupt" landing and left the runway at the Halifax airport in bad weather, but there were no immediate reports of injuries, authorities said early Sunday.
The airline said all passengers with Flight AC624 from...

Ohio's latest response to the toxic algae in Lake Erie that last year contaminated one of the state's largest drinking water systems will put a stop to practices that environmentalists have complained about for years. Now the big question is will it...

Airlines and officials around the world on Thursday began requiring two crew members to always be present in the cockpit, after details emerged that the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 had apparently locked himself in the cockpit and deliberated...

A Canadian antiques dealer caught in a U.S. crackdown on illegal trafficking in rhinoceros horns was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain announced Xiao Ju Guan's sentence in Manhattan federal...

Canada is expanding its military mission against the Islamic State group to include airstrikes on targets in Syria, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Tuesday. Harper told Parliament that he will not seek "the express consent" of the...

Entrepreneurs may seek approval to establish fish farming in Michigan's Great Lakes waters, officials said Monday — an undertaking that hasn't taken place before on the U.S. side of the lakes, although Canada has allowed commercial aquaculture in Lake...

A man fatally shot on the U.S.-Canada border about 100 miles north of Seattle apparently was in the country illegally, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official said Friday. A preliminary investigation shows the man was also wanted for a murder...

A Turkish opposition lawmaker said Monday that an American and a Canadian are among a group of doctors and medical students believed to have traveled from Turkey into territory in Syria controlled by the Islamic State group. Mehmet Ali Ediboglu said...